Blog - Supporting Believers
A friend of ours works in a department that raises funds for a large hospital. While helping her to develop a workplace testimony, I visited her office. She mentioned how a Christian janitor had noticed she seemed exhausted. How could he could pray for her? Might he share her need—without her name—with other believers in the hospital? She agreed. Hearing this much, I wanted to learn the rest of the story. So, with her help, I arranged a meeting with the janitor.
read more...Have you heard a “workplace testimony”? Like diamonds, such testimonies are rare but valuable. A workplace testimony is a report from one Christian's work world that encourages other believers to see and carry out God's purposes in their own work world and lives. If you were to develop a workplace testimony, where could you use it to encourage? Wherever Christians gather—in church assemblies, small group meetings or even over coffee with one or two others. The impact of such reports often amazes me.
read more...Over coffee, a Christian friend recently told of his fear he was beginning to think and talk like the unbelievers in his workplace. So far as he knows, no one else in his job-related circle has made any commitment to follow Christ. Although he meets with other believers evenings and weekends, most of his prime-time hours isolate him from other members of Christ's body.
read more...How can you intentionally identify other believers in the workplace? Doing so will probably take you out of your comfort zone. That's true in just about any work-world environment. But connecting with believers in a military setting can present even greater challenges—challenges the rest of us can learn from.
read more...A few days ago Debbie LaFever, a woman in the small group that meets in our home, brought us up to date on her adventures as a Christ-follower in a public school. Her workplace testimony encouraged us all. So I asked her to write it up for this website.
read more...Can you help me? Your insights and experience would help me as I create a seminar for pastors and church leaders.
read more..."Mind the gap!” Those recorded words warn passengers in London's subway not to step into the void between the platform and the train car. In its paper on marketplace ministry, the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization quotes those words as "an apt analogy for the gap between Sunday and Monday.” What can close the Sunday-Monday gap?
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